Here's a look at the timeline of events in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, and the ensuing uproar.

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Timeline of events in Martin case

Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, criticized the news media’s focus on the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.

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N.R.A. Criticizes Trayvon Martin Media Coverage

A fifth person is arrested over the fatal shooting of a student in the early hours of Boxing Day.

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Fifth arrest in Salford shooting

Investigators of the fatal M5 crash are treating a nearby firework display as a “major line of inquiry”, as details of victims start to emerge.

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M5 firework venue to help police

James Hickman, the first doctor on the scene of the fatal M5 crash in Somerset, describes how he treated casualties into the early hours.

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VIDEO: M5 crash doctor saw ‘huge fire’

Police in Jersey are investigating the fatal stabbing of six people, including three children, after an attack at a flat in the island’s capital, St Helier.

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‘Shock and pain’ over stabbings

Police investigating the fatal shooting of a man in his 50s in Bangor are understood to be linking the attack to the drugs trade

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Bangor killing ‘linked to drugs’

Detectives investigating the fatal shooting of a woman in a Londonderry seaside town question a man in his 40s at Antrim Police Station.

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Man arrested after fatal shooting

Police arrested a 19-year-old suspect Sunday morning in the fatal shooting of a New Jersey police officer, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said.

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Police Arrest Suspect in N.J. Police Officer Murder

Detectives investigating the fatal shooting of a teenager in south London make two more arrests.

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More arrests over youth’s killing

John H. White, whose prison sentence in the fatal shooting an 17-year-old on his front lawn was commuted by Gov. David A. Paterson, said he was haunted by what he had done.

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Freed From Prison, Long Island Man Takes to Pulpit

New York – On Monday, Dec. 6, a district court in Texas will be asked – for the first time in that U.S. state’s history – to decide whether the death penalty is unconstitutional based on the “disproportionately high risk of wrongful convictions” in Texas. John Edward Green, Jr., the defendant in Texas v. Green, is charged in the fatal shooting of a 34-year-old Houston woman during a 2008 robbery. He has not yet been convicted, but prosecutors say they would seek the death penalty. read more

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US Execution Capital Reconsiders the Death Penalty

The Historical Enquiries Team says a former soldier lied about the fatal shooting of a Derry woman in October 1975

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Former Soldier lied about death